Tournament baseball is a fickle beast with the double-elimination format in regionals favoring the hottest team. Over the weekend in the Austin Regional, the hottest team was the UTSA Roadrunners, who swept through UFCU Disch-Falk Field and ended the season of the No. 4 Texas Longhorns.
“That’s a real team. That’s an Omaha-caliber club,” first-year Texas head coach Jim Schlossnagle said.
The focus of the post-game press conference quickly turned to evaluating a paradoxical season for the Longhorns — the 44 wins were the program’s most since 2010 as the team picked to finish eighth in the SEC standings won the conference during the regular season and earned the No.